Comments by "Rob Fraser" (@krashd) on "The Slow Mo Guys" channel.

  1. For all the Michael Bay 'tards stating these are not "frags" because "the 'nades in the movies can blow up a skyscraper" care to explain to me how soldiers have been awarded posthumous gallantry medals for throwing their body over a grenade to save their comrades?  I mean if grenades are sticks of dynamite like you all seem to believe then wouldn't you just be killing your comrades with bits of your own flying body?   These are fragmentation grenades, basically oversized bangers that shower you in shards of steel if you happen to be within a few meters of them.  Heavy Explosive grenades are closer to what you see in the movies/videogames, but they don't get used against infantry.
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  2. Nate Swain They tried to use a Lynx to cut a can of Axe, but after 30 attempts they just ended up with a very bashed can, lots of blood everywhere and a visit from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
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  3. And somewhere in amongst all that carnage was a very dusty Dan with his trusty goggles and a cigarette lighter.
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  4. Wooden houses?  Hoses with triggers?  A huge bright thing in the sky?  THAT ISN'T BRITAIN!
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  5. Probably. 6.3 million people have watched this video so far so even at the cost of a 10 grand TV it's one of the cheapest adverts they've ever payed for.
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  6.  @RiasatSalminSami  Of course they would, it's the entire reason the nets exist, they are made of steel wire and could stop a car.
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  7. +santiago cassinelli I know, that watermelon had polystyrene written all over it.
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  8. Yeah, when we had old TV's I could always tell if one of them was left on in any room, my parents couldn't.
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  9. Because ships are not known to fall out of the sky when they crash.
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  10. Ironically the ancient game was closer to American footie than it was to soccer, playing with only your feet was one of the last variations of the sport and the one that took over the world because you only need a ball to play it, nothing else. You can make goalposts out of tin cans or as we do in the UK as kids, coats and jerseys.
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  11. Yeah, when rugby football was the dominant sport the game played by men's associations became known as assoc and later soccer, but when it became dominant it was called football. That is why people who argue over the name are idiots, there are a hundred variations of the sport and the one that is dominant in your own country is the one you call 'football'. In Australia they play a game similar to rugby which non Aussies call Australian rules football, but Australians just call it football. Because to them that is what it is. They are all called football and none of them are called football, it depends whether you are in a country or looking in to that country.
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  12. And 19,000 people just had to mutter about it in the comments. I know which irritates me most.
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  13. +GmodPlusWoW Animatronic?  It was a stuffed mammoth with one leg masking a hydraulic press.  It was made for this video, not to walk around at a theme park.  Probably wasn't even stuffed, it was probably made from recycled toilet paper.
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  14. +Andrew (Lime-y PIE) It's not high definition, it is record rate (not sure what the exact term is called). A camera that can take 2,500 individual high quality images (frames) every second is crazy expensive.  A typical camera might take only 60 frames per second.  After that you also need to buy a very VERY good hard disk drive for the PC you connect the camera too, because 2,500 HD images every second demands a monstrously fast hard drive to record on to. This is why Gav sometimes runs to the camera to switch it on and then runs back to switch it off.  For every second it is running it takes up massive chunks of hard drive space.
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  15.  @Kylex63  Not really, the OP was talking about a mustache growing a firefighter whereas Syfer thought he meant why firefighters grow mustaches. You should learn context and the definition of the whoosh.
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  16. +SkyneT It's only use was this video, it's an advert.
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  17.  @GreyWolfLeaderTW  That's because of population difference. Learn about how to use stats if you want to use stats.
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  18. +David Lowe Cannons did allsorts, the reason today we have both guns and shotguns.  A projectile could punch a hole in your ship at the waterline, allowing a smaller ship to hang back and just hope you could not repair it in time.  They also had 'grapeshot' which like a shotgun meant hundreds of tiny projectiles that could incapacitate countless targets.  Then you had grenades, small cannon balls packed with substances that would react with oxygen when they made impact. People even got inventive with cannon balls, pirates who wanted to disable a target would load ammunition that they had created themselves.  Nunchukas! Or as they called them, chain shot.  This was a hunk of small projectiles that were attached in pairs by a 6-foot chain.  The idea was that just like shot the projectiles would spread out but the chain connecting them would tear anything they hit.  Chain shot could annihilate a ship's sails making it dead in the water.
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  19. One of the chemicals in Pyrex is illegal in the EU and it is one that American creators use as a costcutting measure. So over here in Britain their stuff is more expensive but also uses a compound that is far more resistant to temperature changes, sort of like a transparent ceramic. I think American Pyrex adopted the same formula not out of demand but to stay true to their motto of 'unbreakables'. Small price increase to retain a reputation. Oh, and the chemical used was not in any way dangerous, it was just created using an inefficient method, in the EU materials are banned from use if the creation process is deemed more harmful than the end product can justify.
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  20. +Pixel Puncher0 They grow like weeds over here.  Pull one out between your roses and your begonias and tomorrow two will be in it's place.
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  21. Cooling towers only ever contain clean water and you get them at coal and sometimes gas power stations as well as nuclear.
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  22. Bill Nonymous Fuck sake, do cunts have to be nationalistic over a fucking can of deodorant?  It is Lynx and Axe, stop embarrassing my country by being all "We call it Lynx!".  Aderic, I apologize for the level of retardation my countrymen are showing :(
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  23. +Rob Fraser In a way it is not at all unlike any other type of ejector seat.  In a fighter jet, if you did not blow the canopy first then you would go through it and suffer catastrophic head injuries.  As what happened on Top Gun ;)
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  24. I'm in Dundee, Scotland and it is 34 degrees C here, for the past 5 years we've had summers comparable with Spain's more moderate areas. The thing is that Mediterranean countries have air-con, but we don't, never needed it, I've got a fan in each room trying to circulate air.
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  25. No, you can't, Neodynium magnets are rare Earth magnets and permanent.
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  26. He does look as though he's getting ready for winter and we're not even finished this one. He must be a really sleepy bear.
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  27. +The Fox For this video, it's called advertising.
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  28. HUNFender Not sure it's possible to waste water here.
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  29. Well for a fact it's 3 mins long instead of several hours.
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  30. Just some friendly scally-bashing, if you picture someone trying to tout wares out of the back of a van or a suitcase it's easy to imagine them with a Liverpool accent and a perm. Our Scottish equivalent would be a Glasweegian wearing a plastic bag as a rain hat and selling 40p socks or three for a pound.
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  31. Record a teabagging in slow motion, with both nostrils covered and at least 'one lump in the cup'.
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  32. And two months after it didn't happen you seem to be under the impression it did...
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  33. Yeah, people forget that planes have been hitting things since 1908.
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  34.  @MrClauried  He's in the UK at the moment, they can't visit each other because of lockdown.
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  35. dtj6fan, the US has more swearwords and they change from state to state. The only way to protect your children from all of them is to buy them lots of guns.
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  36. He knew that even if his mask went up his mustache would afford him another 45 seconds or so of safety.
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  37. Millions, he's a YouTuber.
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  38. In a non-backlit screen the green LED is less vibrant than the red and blue so you either need two green LEDs per pixel or one large green LED, which is what you saw on the OLED screen, each pixel consists of a thin blue sliver LED, a thin red sliver LED and a large crescent-shaped green LED.
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  39. They are in no way releated as far as we know, the telephone number for the emergency services in the US predates 2001 by decades.
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  40. What if a child fell underneath another child and created a two-child pile up?  Do we have some sort of procedure to handle this?
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  41. What kind of monster subjects a melon to that? Don't you have melons of your own??! you make me sick.
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  42. Your eyes can pick up around 3,000-9,000 images every second depending on the part of the cone in use (we don't use two cameras, we use millions of them and they all have different timings), but your cognitive ability can only make sense of the most miniscule part of the wide field of view ahead of you. The human brain works in what we call real time, which is not in fact "the real time" but our own cognitive real time. The brain is fed constant imagery at a spectacular speed and makes sense of it in different ways for different things, flash up two images together and by 25-90 frames per second we will see the two images merge yet our brain is clearly seeing them flip back and forth, one after another in what would not even be blurry, it would be like one of Gav and Dan's videos, crystal clear. But only our brain sees it, not us. Again though, a few thou is a lot different to 100k+ These cameras are still faster than our amazing eyeballs. Amazeballs? I'll patent that. The human body is superfantastic, edge-of-tomorrow hardware, but the software it runs on (us lot, the human psyche, the bunch of electronic, chemical synapses that inhabit the squishy bit at the top) is slow and glitchy and only gets an upgrade every few hundred thousand years.
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  43. +Nishant Kumar There is a fantastic steel industry in India.  If you require a cast part that won't break then something fabricated in Burnpur will outlive the rest of your product.
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  44. +inademv You just need a counter-balance, the scissorlift clearly had a grey attachment just offscreen which I would imagine was weighed down with counter-weights.
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  45. +bob sulivan Where did this idiotic idea to use the term defiantly in place of definitely first start?
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  46. Michael McPeak If it's several thousand frames per second then it can use up a lot of hard drive space very very quickly LIKE MASSIVE CHUNKS OF SPACE, every second counts when recording at 5,000fps.
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  47. I don't believe the US has ever beaten the UK in a war, 1812 is the one that springs to mind, but we did burn the Whitehouse and pee on the embers.
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  48. Hidde Derks You'd be surprised, Jimi Hendrix never used a shovel or a pickaxe when he tackled that mountain.
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  49. I think they had to use about a thousand of the highest speed cameras to capture light travelling but it was neat how they did it :P
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  50. +Radical Eddie Your parents don't. Dad: "WTF?  There's a chunk of deodorant can stuck to the garage door.  And what's that pink stuff all over the tree?"
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